The Rosetta Stone played a vital role in researchers deciphering hieroglyphics. It was found in 1799, but wasn't fully deciphered until many years later.

during the reign of pharaoh Ptolemy V. It is unclear how the stone was discovered in July 1799, but there's a general belief that it was found by soldiers fighting with the French military leader ...

Zahi Hawass announces the discovery of the largest, most complete ancient city in the Valley of the Kings area in Egypt.

The first Cleopatra, Syra (“the Syrian”), was the daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus III; her marriage to Ptolemy V in ...

Two sandstone reliefs of King Ptolemy V were also recently found at the temple. After the coronation of Ptolemy V, who ruled from 210 BC until 180 BC, priests at the sacred city of Memphis issued ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

Wealth and power have always protected themselves, but if we are to arrest the downward slide of our societies and ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

IT is somewhat strange that in the article on Ptolemy in the “Penny Cyclopædia,” he is spoken of only as a geographer. His fame is undoubtedly built upon his two great works on astronomy and ...

The dynasty was founded in 305 B.C. after Alexander the Great of Macedonia took Egypt in 332 B.C. and one of his generals, ...

In A History of The World in 100 Objects the former Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor takes this listener on a trip around the world and back in time. In each of the episodes in the ...

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